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Supreme Court Decisions

Opinions of the United States Supreme Court.

planned browse model · decade → year → case

Here's the shape this codebook will take.

When the data lands, these are the screens you'll click through. No mystery search-first list.

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by decade

1970s opinions

Decade ribbon at top, scroll a clean list of cases by year.

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by case

Brown v. Board of Education

Full opinion with the holding pulled to the top and citations wired into the codebooks they interpret.

/scotus/1954/brown-v-board
by topic

Equal protection cases

Once cases are tagged, browse by doctrine — not just chronology.

/scotus/topic/equal-protection
recently added

Latest opinions indexed

What got added in the last drop.

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